Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Does anyone else get frustrated that we spotlight poverty and AIDS on a national level and remain completely free of discussing the social and economic context of these conditions? What if after people donated money, Fox connected the donors by phone to their representatives in Congress? And why don’t we talk about donating towards the […]

So the UK approved in-flight mobile and the FAA is still against cellphone usage on a plane. You know what? So am I! I don’t want some hurf-durf buttereater gabbing on a cellphone within 8 inches of my face on a 4 hour flight while her sticky-fingered harelip progeny crawling over the seat and Oh […]

My favorite corporate speak from a previous job is the phrase: Let’s take that offline. Which usually means: I’m going to choke the shit out of you. Later. My other favorite is: It’s on the wiki. Which translates to: Fuck you. I’m not going to help you.

In online privacy news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States — and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court. Full story…

Due to a security vulnerability, blogs using WP 2.3.3 and older will not be indexed by Technorati. This is a follow up on our post regarding a problem affecting thousands of WordPress blogs, Patch or Upgrade Your WordPress Installation, Now. WordPress has since released version 2.5. However, we’ve noticed that a large number of blogs […]

Well at least it isn’t the whole Facebook will eat your children theme. I’m sure this New York Times article is getting a ton of play right now: Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart […]

From a post on The Blog Herald’s comments: forums are a great place to start looking for the hot topics and those that gain more attention than others, are ones you may want to consider posting about. Yup! Often when I tell bloggers they should track forums relevant to their topics, they think this means […]

From Oreilly: (found via MeFi) But today’s news from Amazon about Print-on-Demand is the latest move from Amazon revealing a trend toward much more aggressive explicit lock-in attempts. Amazon has effectively told publishers that if they wish to sell POD books on Amazon, they must use Amazon as the POD printer. Small/self publishers are unsurprisingly […]

Just sent this on the ezine: ::: TICK-TOCK GOES THE CLOCK Time is running out. Hopefully you’ve had time to listen to the Six Figure Blogging preview call from last night – if not, here it is: http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=2420616 ::: HURRY UP You have just a few more hours to take advantage of the early-bird discount […]

The Six Apart/HP-sponsored theme contest ‘What Do You Have to Say’ has just 2 days left. The response has been absolutely fantastic and it is fun to sit near the team working on this and hear their delight each day as the campaign grows well beyond our initial expectations. If you’re a designista, you’ve got […]